mission to teach music really should know why you should care about human to. dish is why you should care what you only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture. dozens of civilians are reportedly killed in a serious hama province where the government and the opposition blaming each other and the russian foreign minister exclusively tells our team just where moscow stands in the conflict. russia and india rubber stamp billions of

dollars worth of military megadeals up the two of the world's fastest growing countries and boost their global influence which is certainly making some in the west nervous. and while some celebrate others struggle the spiraling costs of christmas leave british pensioners in a far from the festive spirit. world news live from our brand new age steam moscow headquarters here watching r t with me lucy catherine of. well see. at least sixty people have been killed in a government airstrike on a bakery in the central hama province the state run media broadcast of the nie only

instead accusing the opposition of the killings designed to smear the authorities as the international peace envoy visited damascus they are problems have it witnessed intense fighting in the past few days meanwhile russia's foreign minister had rebuffed speculation that moscow is looking to give asylum to president assad and that russia is shielding his government sergei lavrov spoke exclusively to our team more on that now from our correspondent in europe is going on. russia's foreign minister once again stressed that there could only be a diplomatic solution to this conflict adding that moscow is not taking sides and has condemned syrian authorities for using disproportionate force the security forces clearly were. prepared to face the public. protests and protests in the cities and in the villages they have been threatening you know to call into foreign aggression not to keep law and order

civilized men there however the minister also said that this doesn't rule out the fact that the rebels continue provoking syrian afterwards and he criticized the west for failing to condemn the actions of some groups within the syrian opposition who sometimes go to the most extreme measures like taking hostages or even terrorism it's absolutely unacceptable if. the west would start would begin to. qualify terrorist as. bad terrorist and acceptable terrorists will also ask the minister why he thinks the nato was so eager to deploy the six batteries the interceptor missiles on turkey's border with syria and whether iran could be the actual target here is what he said that's what. people say. the configuration as it is being presented in the media. really looks like it could be used against iran and other vital issue

concerning syria isn't stockpile of chemical weapons going to russia is cheap diplomats or players seem to acknowledge that it's the responsibility of syrian authorities to keep it safe and that it would be unacceptable if the rebels got their hands on it but then it makes very little sense of why some states in the west continue persuading the rebels to continue fighting by giving the moral political and financial support. frozen in her press going off there of course we'll have more highlights for you from sergey lavrov exclusive interview later this hour that's also available on our web site for you at our team dot com. well britain's government is under fire from human rights groups for planning to sell dozens of combat jets to the united arab emirates as well as other gulf states the prospective deal is seen as a sign of support for a regime which the e.u. earlier slammed for human rights abuses as well as torture in addition to the jets prime minister david cameron said britain might station strips in the u.a.e.

after pulling out from afghanistan the u.k. is also trying to prolong its military presence on existing bases in bahrain and qatar geo political analyst patrick henningsen says it's not poor to see britain's alterio motives. the justification for this massive build up in the middle east especially in the gulf states and. the west is basically blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions there's no proof of any to the weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so you can circumvent of iran it's certainly not a geo political you know number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geo politically looking for

some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years well the prospect of military confrontation with iran doesn't seem to be fading anytime soon and want to tehran's closest allies announced that it will not be staying out of the fray. i want to look at how the lebanese militant group hezbollah or spawns two a possible attack on iran later this hour on our team. in britain this christmas there's a bleak choice for many elderly people skyrocketing household bills uncurbed pensions mean that some are frankly forced to choose between eating and heating polly boyko finds out. santa claus is coming to town and the shops are ready for the annual customer onslaught eighty two year old lady isn't in the festive spirit she's worried that

she can't afford to be anything other than a scrooge this christmas black paint. on good in some neck isn't enough to let go on with. you know with zoe bales and. as well i think she'll go with that or does things ok. for the a pension person inside of you but then and off the most energy from hike prices is the winter months set in livy and people like her face a cold or daca festive season according to buy a new boiler plate on in the bedroom is still in the a view into a well known bedroom. so now they all know if there's a big bill here now that sounds like the rose for something i thought about but nothing on a cabinet. that is

a while right yeah yeah more and more britons are turning off their heating in the run up to a christmas and they're using these hot water bottles instead but according to hospital the money saving trend comes on the high price of its own with flooring numbers of buttons and injuries it isn't just the cost of fuel christmas essential is will soon be worth their weight in gold the average price of turkey has risen seven percent since last year a family bird setting you back a whopping fifty five pounds on your christmas cards an average pack of twelve costs ten percent more this holiday and with printer ink now pricier than champagne you can forget about making your own to save money besides postage doesn't come cheap now at thirty percent more this christmas first class post in every sense of the term there's not a shop on the line that would risk missing out on

a christmas promotion right now it's not sure why get fired up to the best seventy's getting more and more commercial but a charity which writes when you work you might actually afford to take god we've talked to many families about christmas time and it's something that they really struggle with a time when all the families are celebrating we've got rises in fuel prices we've got rises in food prices in the benefits and the support mechanisms that people have got. that they've got is all being cut back it's going to be really really tough for people this christmas pension the lady isn't just worried about the plight of the elderly she knows she's far from alone in counting down to a down costs december twenty fifth you know where they've been going out but their wages haven't gone out and people that. there's a lot of people. that. that.

and with the bank of england's less than glad tidings of a triple dip recession on the cards struggling britons will be wishing for nothing short of a christmas miracle. london. even those brits who are unlucky enough to be spending their christmas in the hospital have some warring facts to contend with. online or revolutions about here is of neglect and mistreatment of u.k. patients some even starving to death. what's troubling the two as we explain why tourists won't be able to pay a personal tribute to lennon for quite some time.

what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection sadly the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you can security feels

a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world talks about six fifty rpm interviews intriguing story. troy arabic to find out more visit arabic.

deadly rivals the decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators. self-imposed out costs from society i will contact myself chemical attack my brother understand my contacts. going to eventually attack the cops of my anger and my frustration. that upgrade well into the dome. two of the most violent gangs in us history. is just all model killer to kill with the colors matching the national flag.

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technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future of harvard. welcome back lucy catherine affair and you're watching our take well the final result in egypt's divisive constitution referendum is expected on tuesday but the

country's opposition says it is going to keep on fighting against the islamist draft a document opponents of the muslim brotherhood accuse the ruling group and president morsi of mass of vote rigging for early results showed the yes vote securing over sixty percent off and hawaii from the algal store party had told r.t. of some of the many alleged irregularities. this constitution and this around is is a disgrace to a nation that fox hard for its freedom and for its rights it's a document that strips result of all the rights that we've been tried to constitute a dictatorship and it has been taught by a referendum that was a massive massive rigging for the ballot boxes massive rigging for the voice of the people physically see tens and hundreds of schools tens and hundreds of schools where the ballot boxes and the referendum process was taking place at a convenience i when the voices were very all the pools so that the people voting

no the power was cut off the most of the other not the. judges and employees and that schools shut down the school over. the front of the voters and the state was about a block has not overseas for hours and hours we do not recognize any results unless we see a prophet investigation and a proper digging through these evidence that we put and we receive a proper answer from the high committee of the election well most three billion dollars worth of defense megadeals that is signed between russia and india president putin is on a visit to new delhi cementing ties with fast growing economies as they continue to try and boost their global influence ideas noria financial reports on how their improved world standing is worrying some in the west. russia and india have signed around three billion dollar worth of military contracts today and many experts have already said that that is very important and that is very symbolic why this thing

is that today it is number one one point importer in the world and russian made equipment accounts for more than seventy percent of the indian military supplies but recently india has signed many contracts with you guys and israel and some have started saying that russia is losing its role its position in this particular region region and especially on the indian military market with all these contracts signed today we can say this hopeless case of cooperation is to very high and russia and india remain very close allies disproval reeks of five growing states is baking countries like america why there is because they have their own interests in this particular region especially defense interests boosting their military presence in the backyard of china and by this visit by this gathering today here in india the role of increasing role and importance of group of brits that experts say

actually is able to counterbalance their western dominance in the world has been stressed and outlined again and again. to political analyst william angles that the world's fastest growing economy and serve many more reasons for partnership as opposed to rivalry. a think we will see out of necessity but a closer drawing together of russia and china simply because the challenges from the ballistic missile defense and solutions of the u.s. both against china and against russia now last year. mean that they're both in that in the firing line of potential nuclear conflict with the united states and nato and that's that's no joke and that is a hair trigger for war but miscalculation the reasons for offer a sion are much stronger at this point than the reasons for conflict india is in kind of a peculiar position it's. a norm is potential for economic growth and enormous

problems of backwardness the caste system and so forth that the interest that if we compare it with say china or russia but the potentials are there and i think the synergies are there for the cooperation between china russia and india. well time for more world news now an afghan police woman has shot dead a us security advisor at the police headquarters in kabul the female officer had walked up to the victim as he left the shop in the heavily guarded compound firing at him once with a pistol she's now in custody it's got to be the first time that a real men have carried out what are called green on blue insider attacks such killings have left more than sixty people dead this year alone. it. is the most fighters claim to have destroyed the remaining muslims in the ancient city of teamed up to in northern mali the rebels say that they're defending the purity of their faith against people worshipping idols locals believe that it is in

retaliation to the one backs military operation to take back the road in this controlled north. a red alert been issued and chill it made fears of a volcano on the border with argentina potentially erupting roads leading to the area have been closed and scientists are warning people to stay outside a fifteen kilometer radius hopefully out of reach of any possible mudflows or volcanic fragments smoke and ash has been pouring out of the cone for more than a day no forcing nearby villagers to leave the plume had reached over one and a half kilometers high. well iran has claims that it has successfully overcome sanctions on its oil sales imposed by the west over its nuclear program and with israel repeatedly saying that a military strike could be imminent of penalties don't work confrontation doesn't look so farfetched at all and tehran's chief ally in the region has been long has

made it clear that it will not stand aside if that happens during my recent visit to lebanon i set out to discover what the militant group was actually up to take a look. a red line should be drawn right here the line beyond which lies war with iran that in yahoo would like to be able to communicate to the world that the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the full support of the united states threat or bluff whatever the case and the tap it all but guarantee our rapid response from another nemesis of the jewish state has moema. the lebanese shia paramilitary group has evolved from a ragtag militia to a military and political heavyweight it's part of the so-called axis of resistance against israel referring to the alliance between hezbollah hamas syria and iran and according to hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah both israel and the united states

would suffer a retaliation to any strike against tehran and. the response would not be limited to the israeli entity the u.s. military bases in the entire region will serve as targets. so if israel targets iran even by itself that. america will be held accountable for this that. israel's november battle with gaza was seen as a test for a possible confrontation with the law on israeli airstrikes rained on gaza in exchange came a barrage of long range mortars and rockets most were held by israel's anti-missile shield the plunger for a rocket threat from gaza the war may have showcased newly acquired weapons by palestinian militant factions but hezbollah's arsenal is thought to be of higher quality and quantity and experts say that it could launch four times as many walk its per day as hamas the details of has stopped all our secrets but the group's

willingness to use it is not. israel was shaken by a few fragile five missiles which could be counted on the fingers of one's hand i want to be able to withstand the thousands of missiles that will land on television and elsewhere if it attacks the fellow. who was israel and hezbollah came face to face was in two thousand and six since then. hizbullah has now it collated around forty five thousand missiles off various ranges. it's run of all part of the range goes beyond three hundred and what's three hundred fifty kilometers which according to them at least they can reach the whole of. the south of the country this museum in the south of lebanon is designed to display has been proclaimed military prowess captured israeli tanks and weapons are meant to be

a reminder of the danger has blocked compose. this is the only has the tunnel now open to visitors but a network of secret passageways just like this one stretches across lebanon they're used to move fighters and weapons across the country and showing that hezbollah stands ready to strike at a moment's notice lucy caffein of r t southern lebanon. all right well as promised artie's full interview with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov starts in just a couple of minutes stay with us. flying north with me in this old soviet work course of the holocaust is dr vladimir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until

eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow we will do this as a boy here suffering from fever and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread love on a doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who leave and they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent that i should never used to be but

now we can go to civilized places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance and being treated the service costs fourteen million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters as a free taxi service accusations vladimir firmly dismisses your brother is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but that america's confident that even after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian far north.

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